Will there be sub tech levels present? Can i get a spear from hunter gatherer aliens and equip it? Or get knight armor from "medieval", aliens? Presumably such items would be next to worthless compared to "modern" items, but still would be neat to be able to spear fight some tribal chieftain or gun sling duel a pioneer.
#Low tech
patent junco
For that matter can i use the omni printer to print a spear, a revolver, or a vintage tea set?
strange jacinth
iirc, yes any tech level civilization will be able to be found, but large cities will no longer be able to be visited because that is too much work to proceduarlly generate or something like that
#the-dev-shed message
oh wait do you have access to that channel :/
this is probably the next best answer, tech level starts in the stone age
#stellar-cartography message
tho I have no concrete message stating that there are medieval items
final jasper
I would say yes to all of the above, and once we have working melee weapon mechanics, then we can implement any form of melee weapon. We just need to add a damage type and a damage value.
What we're doing with the core systems is building the foundation for future assets/content. That means step one is building a melee combat mechanic, and the ability to wear armour. Once that's working, it opens to the door to any weapon and any piece of armour. That's pretty much true for everything in the game, and because we're simulating everything as much as possible, when you fire a laser at some steel plate armour, the game engine will know how to handle it.
Regarding the 3D printers, yes, once you have "discovered" something, as long as its within your tech level you will be able to 3D print more of them. Assuming you have the materials.
Assets will be seeded, so let's say you find a nice looking vase on a planet, that vase will have a unique seed that will be saved and made available on the 3D printers. It's an INT32 seed, so essentially we can have up to 4 billion procedurally-unique versions of any type of object.